Inner Wisdom From Proverbs

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the Neville Goddard lens, Proverbs 4:3-4 becomes a scene of consciousness rather than a history lesson. I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother, translates to realizing you are the child of the one infinite awareness—the inner father and the inner mother—whose tenderness oozes through your self-conception. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live, is a directive to fix in the heart the immutable truths of your being. To 'retain my words' is to hard-wire the remembered sentences of truth into your imaginative life; 'keep my commandments' means align every impulse with that inner law, not with outward appearances. When you live by this law, life itself—vitality, direction, purpose—is but the fruit of that alignment. You are not chasing after commandments; you are simply choosing the reality you already are. The mother’s sight and tenderness symbolize the receptive, nurturing mood of consciousness that accepts these truths until they solidify as lived experience.